Schuette has decided that "those people" are not worthy of equal protection under the law. If you know anything about history, you know when "those people" don't have the same rights as "our people," they suffer. And you should also know that the same people who deny "those people" equal protection, could turn their malevolence at you. That is why we all should speak up. Don't be silent.

What is so ironic is that the same party who has decided that "those people" are unworthy of protection, the same party of "family values" had no problem endorsing a man accused of child molesting and praising a self-described crotch grabber and man accused of serial adultery. Either all of us have equal rights or none of us do.

Beverly Friedenberg

Huntington Woods

► So, Attorney General Bill Schuette shows his true colors by saying Michigan law doesn't protect gay and transgender citizens from discrimination. He has shown that he supports the hate campaign of President Donald Trump. We in Michigan are stuck with Trump for another 2.5 years. We don't need another Trump supporter in our state government.

Tom Nanasy

Riverview

► This latest pronouncement by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission to add gender identity and sexual orientation to the language of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act of 1976 is a troubling eye-opener.

This is true, first, because of the one-sided, preferential agenda that sits at the heart of what the members of the commission have decidedly established as policy even as those who measure their efforts have clearly stated they have no authority to do what they’ve done.

But second, and perhaps more important, the situation reveals how a small, unelected group can so easily snatch away the power of the Legislature. This should bother the people of Michigan. It should bother the lawmakers in Lansing, both Democrats and Republicans, who are legitimately charged with the issue’s future. But apparently, it doesn’t. They appear to be OK with one of the most society-altering issues of our time being left to a handpicked few.

Rev. Christopher I. Thoma

Hartland

► Attorney General Bill Schuette, Michigan's top cop, has made a political ruling rather than a legal one in writing an opinion denying LGBT rights. The Michigan Civil Rights Commission ruled earlier this year that Michigan may not discriminate based upon sexual orientation. At the behest of Republican legislators, Schuette has ruled that Michigan citizens can still be fired from their jobs or denied housing based upon sexual orientation. The LGBT community is being discriminated against and specifically denied the civil rights available to the rest of Michigan residents.

Since Schuette began his run for governor, his rulings have seemed more political in appealing to his base than legal. These rulings, like this one, focus upon his political ambitions rather than being Michigan's top law enforcement officer.

Just more political pandering by our AG in his crusade to become governor. I wonder with whom Schuette considers this strategy will work? Discrimination is never good law.